[GRLUG] Free BSD and Free NAS

[Roger Roelofs]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Philip J. Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Roger Roelofs wrote:
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>> Casey,
>>
>> FreeBSD + ZFS is a pretty sweet setup.  However, ZFS keeps a separate
>> cache from other file systems, so it takes a fair amount of RAM to
>> support multiple file system types.
>
> People get by with less for home use, but 2 GB is generally the recommended minimum for a ZFS/OpenSolaris (and I think BSD) system. I'm using a cheap motherboard with an AMD Sempron 140 and 2GB for my EON media holding box. I'm only running CIFS, not AFP, NFS, SMB or any UPnP/DLNA services.

Yes.  Sorry I wasn't clearer.  The caveat I mentioned only applies if
you have some partitions UFS and some ZFS and they both see a fair
amount of activity.  Think "Dueling Banjos" but with disk cache
instead.

-- 
Roger

Roger Roelofs
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